arrogative

Making undue claims and pretensions; prone to arrogance.

But I am not seeing humility and self-denyall and acknowledgement of their own unworthinesse of such things as they aimed at, nor mortification, not of the body (for that's sufficiently insisted upon) but of the more spiritual arrogative life of the soul, that subtill ascribing that to our selves that is Gods, for all is Gods; […]

Those who have passed the middle of life, and are entitled by the experience of years to comment and criticise, if not to judge and counsel, often yield this privilge to younger censors arrogative of pretensions very willingly relinquished by their seniors; for a long acquaintance with human nature oftener inspires diffidence than self-reliance, when we have learnt how insufficient is worldly knowledge, not only to predict human conduct, but to interpret it.

Involving a claim or demand, as opposed to something bestowed or given.

Adoption was either before the pretor or the people (7), and either arrogative, as where the adopted has no natural father, in which case the parties mutually asked each other if they were willing, the one to be the father, the other to become the son, and the assent confirmed it; or, adoptive, where one father bestowed his son upon another.

Yet pace Arendt, strictly speaking, political action as freedom applies only to the moment of arrogative creation and initiation. For although the ur- political act is in one sense unconstrained and willed, it is simultaneously unavoidable, and its enactment does not guarantee the subsequent freedom Arendt aimed at.

Exhibiting scope arrogation; expanding the scope of a word to refer to more of a sentence than the minimal possibility.

The non-do-supported forms of dare and need tend to favour arrogative and necessitative (or non-arrogative and non-necessitative) interpretation, and thus are less clearly distinct from deontic, and in the case of need, epistemic interpretations.

Symmetric scope arrogation would seem to be a feature of some commutative conjunctively distributive uses of 'or'. as well as some cases where 'or' conjunctively joins whole sentences, but not all conjunctive occurrences of 'or' are symmetrically arrogative.